I would not believe for a second that he is any better than his predecessors. It is still the same religion and he would not have gotten the job if he disagreed with any of this stuff.
I do think that he is marketed out there as a good guy, and unfortunately it is working.
I think he said at one point that "Atheists can go to heaven too", and people were going mental over this, being all happy about how supportive he was.
Yet, what he actually said was: "Atheists can go to heaven too, as soon as they accept Jesus." There was one more catch: you have to do "good".
So basically, if you accept Jesus AND you do good, you can go to heaven. If you don't care about heaven or Jesus, but still do good, you're fucked.
And of course, I assume that doing good means something completely different to us than to him.
I do think that he is marketed out there as a good guy, and unfortunately it is working.
I think he said at one point that "Atheists can go to heaven too", and people were going mental over this, being all happy about how supportive he was.
Yet, what he actually said was: "Atheists can go to heaven too, as soon as they accept Jesus." There was one more catch: you have to do "good".
So basically, if you accept Jesus AND you do good, you can go to heaven. If you don't care about heaven or Jesus, but still do good, you're fucked.
And of course, I assume that doing good means something completely different to us than to him.
